Roderick Usher
VALE RIDEOUT, tenor
Nashville Opera credit:
Frank in Elmer Gantry
New York Philharmonic, Opera Columbus, Mobile Opera, Minnesota Opera, Central City Opera
* Nashville Opera debut
Madeline Usher
JENNIFER ZETLAN, soprano*
Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Juilliard Opera Center
William, the narrator
LEE GREGORY, baritone
Nashville Opera credit:
Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet
New York City Opera, Toledo Opera,
Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Eugene Opera, Opera Naples
Production Designer
BARRY STEELE
Nashville Opera credits: Der Rosenkavalier, Tosca, Salome, The Lighthouse, La Voix Humaine, Faust, Surrender Road, Turandot, Romeo and Juliet, The Student Prince
Mobile Opera, Opera New Jersey, Des Moines Metro Opera, Augusta Opera
Conductor
WILLIAM BOGGS
Artistic Director, Opera Columbus
Nashville Opera credits: Iolanthe, Elmer Gantry, The Student Prince, Noah Liff Opera Center Gala Concert
Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Carolina, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Lake George Opera
Director
JOHN HOOMES
Nashville Opera Artistic Director
Nashville Opera: Don Giovanni, Elmer Gantry, Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah, Salome, La Bohème
Florentine Opera, Mobile Opera, Opera New Jersey, Opera Columbus
Friday, November 13, 2009 (8 p.m.)
Saturday, November 14, 2009 (8 p.m.)
Sunday November 15, 2009 (2 p.m. matinee)
James K. Polk Theater
Tennessee Performing Arts Center
PHILIP GLASS
Opera Insights: one hour before curtain at every performance.
Nashville Opera always projects English translations above the stage.
Physician
PAUL DAWSON, tenor
Nashville Opera credits: Ensemble member, Parpignol in La Bohème, Tamino in The Magic Flute (Education & Outreach)
TDMA Productions
Servant
J. PAUL ROARK, bass
Nashville Opera credits: Ensemble member, Count Monterone in Rigoletto, Pooh Bah in The Mikado, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Ferrando in Il Trovatore
Nashville Symphony Chorus
Opera at the Library
Fall of the House of Usher Reading
Friday, October 30, 2009
12 - 1 PM, Downtown Public Library
Artistic Director John Hoomes discussed
how Poe’s classic was transformed for the opera stage. more
Nashville Opera Noah Liff Opera Center 3622 Redmon Street Nashville, Tennessee 37209 615.832.5242